Hi Christian, The service OfficeDocument has an interface XEventBroadcast to register listeners of event documents. There are two events of interest here: OnMailMerge e OnMailMergeFinished. Maybe this is the way to do your work (only a guess).
HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Lohmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dev@api.openoffice.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [api-dev] Registering an XMailMergeListener - possible at all? > Hi Marc, > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:31:52PM +0100, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 14:59 +0100 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > > > > > http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=11328 > > > > > > > > But at least it showshow this stuff is expected to work. > > > [...] > > > (and indeed the cited sample doesn't use the mailmergelistener at all) > > > > > > I guess I'll just file an issue to have something like "you need to > > > create your own mail-merge to use the listener" to the docs. > > > > Please do that, it happens that some framework designs from the > > "thinking lab" are conceptually nice and orthogonal but not well suited > > for practically using them. > > ??? > Why not add a hint for other users that they cannot use the > mailmerge-listener to hook-up into the existing wizard? > That would save those that come after me the fuzz about trying with no > success and asking on the mailinglist and waiting for an answer, only to > get to know that trying with the mailmerge-listener was wasted time > since it cannot be used that way? > > > > > > > From having a quick look at the code at least the setup of a database > > > > > > connection is shown, too. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, but this still would require me to write code to ask the user for > > > > > the requested database and to duplicate all the stuff the current > > > > > mail-merge wizard has builtin. (I personally don't like the wizard at > > > > > all, but I don't want to write one myself either) > > > > > > > > Okay, thinking about it two ideas come to my mind: > > > > > > > > 1. Hacking up^w Improving the wizard > > > > > > Honestly, I like the OOo 1.x way much better. No fancy wizard. Just drag > > > the fields into your document where you want them, optionally add some > > > conditions (that's where help from a wizard would come handy), then > > > select the set of rows you want to have included and fire off the > > > mailmerge. > > > > If I'm honest too, I must admit that I'm only rarely using 2.x and never > > did use the wizard myself. Isn't it possible to switch that thing off? > > It is somewhat possible. You must edit your toolbar to add an icon for > the old mailmerge. The new wizard and the old way have the same name, so > you have to guess. You cannot add this icon to the database-beamer > toolbar, you have to add it to the default toolbar. > And even worse: you cannot select the datarows before launching the > wizard, the selection is lost. Instead the old-style-dialog will open a > new dialog that has a grid control that showst the databasetable. There > you can highlight the rows that should be part of the mailmerge. > > > I'll try mail merge on 2.x later on ... > > Please do. And you'll shake your head... > > > For me 1.1.[3|5] is still working well in most situations. ;) > > > > > Choose whether print/save and maybe offer a way to see a preview. > > > That is my view of a useful "wizard". > > > > Sounds good, the preview widget is already in the code somewhere. > > > > On the other hand: you might have choosen the wrong task for beginners > > level. > > You got me totally wrong. I do not intend to write a new wizard. I was > seeking an easy solution to integrate the functionality of my addon. > Both for me, as well for the user who'll use the addon. > > I thought of adding a button "run the merge with the addon", that would > just launch OOo own's mail-merge wizard, but with the listener added, so > that I could modify the created documents (but now I know that this > doesn't work)... Everything else, especially hacking OOo itself is much > of an effort (and as you wrote yourself: Not something for a beginner > like me :-) > > ciao > Christian > -- > NP: Evanescence - Like You > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/713 - Release Date: 7/3/2007 09:24 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
